That’s it! Now you can publish your blog posts right from Word. There are other programs that allow for this same post to WordPress right from an app in Windows. This is a link to them.

While Word for the Mac does not support this same capabilities, Mac users have a couple of abled bodied programs to choose from. Two are MacJournal and Mars Edit. Additionally, this link also has some links to other Mac Applications that support this technology. A note: I tried a couple of the other apps listed and found them unstable or sadly lacking features. I would recommend that you stick with MacJournal or Mars Edit on the Mac.

When configuring your Mac Apps, use the same information found in steps 3 and 4 above.

Note: This functionality is based on a blogging protocol called xml-rpc. If you are interested, here is a Wikipedia link. The thing is there is very uneven support from program to program of the complete support of the protocol. I ran into some programs that completely supported TwD Categories and Tags and others that made a half hearted attempt at it, and still others that made no attempt what so ever.

If you want to use these posting capabilities, I would plan to visit the TwD site after posting to make sure the metadata information is completely filled in.

SEO is not part of the xml-rpc protocol. For that reasons, none of the programs I looked at made any attempt at posting SEO. All the more reasons to visit your post after publishing the post.

For your own site: To get this working for your own site, the support for the xml-rpc protocol must first be switched on. Fortunately, this is a feature of WordPress. For that reason, the steps to configure are the same, independent of themes, widgets or plug-ins. This is how to turn on xml-rpc:

Dashboard>>Settings>>Writing>>check the Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols. With that, your site will be able to use the method discussed above. In step 4 above, you will use the URL http://the-full-url-to-your-blog/xmlrpc.php. Otherwise the steps would be the same.